YellowLinesandArmadillos

Peace Bridge baby... Seriously, Western, MA has some of the finest Dominican's and all the wrapper tobacco you can get your hands on.

I'll be 94, scary thought, I agree with the damage I've done, lucky if I make 60, but who knows, would love to see my grandchildren.

Which brings up an interesting idea. Schoenfeld is the top assistant with the Rangers. Wonder what Linde and Shoeney's relationship is like. They would make an interesting pair?!

In the vein of this discussion, what do you think is likelihood that players such as Hecht, Talinder and some of the older core players who coming off injury have just not returned to their previous form or some of the young guys like Stafford, Paille and McCarthur who are not scoring will be traded or not return next year?

Oh Yeah@#$@#$! Hmmm, I have a nice room for you at St. Eve's... He has as much sanity as Kieth Olberman... there are few wires in both that are firing rapidly for no apparent reason.

True, but then again CALI makes NYers look like suave folks.... Mostly they are just slobs... no wonder so many enviro laws emminate from out there.... and you think Elizabeth City is bad.... You can't go in the ocean out there for a least three days after it rains because of all the crap that runs off into the ocean.

The real deal is nobody can bring themselves to quit and why unilaterally disarm anyway. The real problem is too many people take the tit-for-tat seriously, like it really means something? Such is Life.

Skiing, one way to get rid of the rich upper crusters! Kinda like lawyers in a bus... There has to be a Edgar Allen Poe joke in there somewhere.... Hollywood Actors and skiing???... a la George of the Jungle... on skis... watch out for that tree? In hockey it is always the blue line that gets you... I guess in skiing it is the tow rope?

Ashley is Hot, but if the allegations are true, she is going to get a lot of crap for it.... Can you say celebrity rehab!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/24/vasec...nomy/index.html

AK still got the $200 mil and God knows where they spent it... probably on Wasilla's new town hall.

Moral of this story is don't ski if you can't take a header... a la Sonny Bono and this list goes on. Rural Hospitals in the US are not much better... my brother still lives with a mis-diagnosed collar bone break by a rural hospital emergency room... Hey welcome to the way the lower half deals with our medical system.!

Not cliff notes, but nice twisting of my words, side by side comparison of the legislation to the law they were changing and possible any other proposals...

Ooh be original.

Ok now you are re-writing history. What about this statement "Look, I'm not trying to start a pissing contest with you but merely point out the inaccuracy of your memory of the 'good old' Clinton days. I too served during that time and had a different memory, so I did some quick research and found that chart." and its sarcastic implication as well as your previous statements in the thread about military pay singling out the Clinton Admin is partisan despite your statement to the contrary. Kinda like "fair and balanced" and I would not have minded it except that you still took your stats out of context and my two examples were indicative of what was going on government wide during this time period during this period of incredible growth, the government couldn't keep up with the pay disparity across all levels. I guess I could find some stats showing the rate of government pay v. private sector during this time period if that would make you happy. I do know there was quite an effort across the board to raise salaries, especially considering a lot of military families and other government employees were eligible for food stamps and P.S. still are even under Bush which you neglected to mention. But to state that the Clinton Admin was the reason for this is simply a partisan hack job, whether you meant or not.

Hmmm, can't argue with you about the cheap shots, don't like them, they do cheapen the game. But I see enough of them in football and bush league A-Rod stuff in baseball and gangster crap in BBall to make most of this argument irrelevant to why continue my support for the sport.

Sure, a talking point.... Hmmm, I was there serving four different Members of Congress for over 15 years. I know what they read and didn't and briefed many a member on legislation and concerns about it, but you can call that a talking point. We used to do spread sheet side by side comparisons for these guys to fully understand the stuff in plain english, but you wouldn't know that, you obviously have never been there and are just reiterating that lazy minority leader's complaint because he is too busy spending time at a tanning salon smoking cigarettes.

No but your stats are out of context, so because of that, your analysis is limited and cannot be extrapolated to anything meaningful, hence why I asked in my first sentence... compared to what. But then again you never responded with anything other than a narrow comparison. Civil Servant and governmental service pay was limited back then too and in the private sector during this time period pay at private firms was growing exponentially. This inequity was government wide and not limited to your flag waving partisan patriotic flag waving judgmentalism. So to go a little more "Fair and Balanced"....Republicans on the Hill constantly fought pay raises for civilians and the military, those are facts. I can go do the vote research on bills if you need them, but I was there. Both sides were looking for ways to balance the budget. Clinton reduced USDA and Commerce personnel by over 30,000 employees each during this time period. Buyouts, incentive retirements and force reductions were common place. My only point is get off your partisan high horse and understand correctly the facts that you are presenting.

They read the stimulus bill and there was plenty of time, very little of the stuff was new legislative language, all they needed was some reference notes and that is what staff is for. If they didn't then that is one them for not doing their job and hiring incompetent staff. The rest is a joke, I agree, pretty silly.... but so is the Pro---College Sports Industry in general. Though I admit the NCAA tourney is great theater.

Agreed and I used to create them for a living!

Ahhh, sigh... you obviously haven't played the game... Yes that happens sometimes and it is fun to lay someone out, and I have been knocked down myself... Not sure why, but I have never been seriously hurt as a result. I know how to fall??? And yet, in its pure form it is both hard hitting and graceful while incredibly exhilarating and exhausting at the same time. But, you sound like someone who needs a timeout between plays or someone making an announcment on a microphone to explain the play to you after the fact. You a baseball fan???

I have used the Canadian Emergency system in Parry Sound, so has my Dad. It was fast, efficient and effective and we in a rural area. I have to say it was a lot quicker to respond than a lot of US Ambulance folks and we were 30 miles of back roads from the Emergency room. The real question is, can we as American taxpayers afford to support a bloated private sector medical system that has three times the administrative costs as even public sector medicare/medicaid. Our ancillary costs of killing the system. Regardless of the how the balance needed between public provided and privately sponsored health care, the current system is broken... it only serves the rich and poor effectively and bankrupts the folks in the middle, who otherwise go without and is killing our governments tax system. I say start with capping administrative costs at 20% for both public or private providers and then see where it goes. Also, health insurance companies cannot be the most profitable business in this country. All they are are middle men, like hedge funds and they have gotten too big for the britches and we cannot afford them.... They are overleveraging us and hell we don't even understand how they work!

Fair Point, thought about that after I posted, hmmm. Cleveland, Burgh fans are too know it all. Check out some of their hockey threads. They revere Cindy!, when Malkin is their best player.

Compared to what??? The economy was going gang busters then and the government was making a very short lived effort to balance the budget.... of course the gap increased. If you compared those salaries to other government pay, I will bet you see a comparable if not worse gap. It did for a lot of lower income groups during that time period. I am surprised it wasn't higher given the rate of growth in this country. Nice understanding of stats... NOT!

I was going to write a response, but couldn't stop LMAO :w00t: